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   An ex-captain in the Houston Police Department was arrested   
   Tuesday for allegedly running a man off the road and assaulting   
   him in an attempt to prove a bizarre voter-fraud conspiracy   
   pushed by a right-wing organization.   
      
   The suspect, Mark Anthony Aguirre, told police he was part of a   
   group of private citizens investigating claims of the massive   
   fraud allegedly funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and   
   involving election ballots forged by Hispanic children. He said   
   the plot was underway in Harris County, Texas, prior to the Nov.   
   3 election.   
      
   Aguirre said he was working for the group Liberty Center for God   
   and Country when, on Oct. 19, he pulled a gun on a man who he   
   believed was the mastermind of the scheme. His victim,   
   identified as "DL" in the police affidavit, is an air-   
   conditioner repairman. Authorities found no evidence that he was   
   involved in any fraud scheme claimed by Aguirre.   
      
   Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said Aguirre "crossed   
   the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime   
   and we are lucky no one was killed."   
      
   "His alleged investigation was backward from the start — first   
   alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it   
   happened," Ogg said.   
      
   Claims of voter fraud during this year's election — by President   
   Trump, Aguirre and others — have been debunked. Evidence that   
   President-elect Joe Biden won the election hasn't stopped Trump   
   and others from challenging the results in court — an effort   
   that has also repeatedly failed. This week, the Electoral   
   College made Biden's victory official.   
      
   Aguirre's scheme was reportedly part of a paid investigation by   
   the Liberty Center group, whose CEO is Republican activist   
   Steven Hotze. It was later discovered that Aguirre was paid   
   $266,400 by the organization for this involvement.   
      
   The Houston Chronicle says Aguirre was fired from the police   
   department in 2003 after a controversial raid at a Houston Kmart   
   parking lot.   
      
   Liberty Center   
      
   Liberty Center for God and Country's Facebook page says the   
   organization's goal "is to provide the bold and courageous   
   leadership necessary to restore our nation to its Godly heritage   
   by following the strategy that our pilgrim forefathers gave us."   
      
   In a meandering Nov. 18 Facebook post on the organization's   
   page, Hotze said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott should be "tarred and   
   feathered" for coronavirus lockdown measures in the state.   
      
   He went on to say that he had raised more than $600,000 over a   
   three-week period leading up to Nov. 1 "to hire private   
   investigators and attorneys to discover, expose and disrupt the   
   Democrats' massive election fraud scheme in Harris County."   
      
   That fundraising push, Hotze said, "prevented the Democrats from   
   carrying out their massive election fraud scheme in Harris   
   County, and prevented them from carrying Texas for Biden. Our   
   efforts saved Texas."   
      
   The Texas Tribune says Hotze was also among a group of   
   Republicans who unsuccessfully sued to have nearly 127,000   
   Harris County ballots tossed out this year and to stop the   
   governor from extending early voting during the pandemic.   
      
   The attack   
      
   Aguirre and two other unidentified companions with the Liberty   
   Center watched the victim for four days prior to the Oct. 19   
   attack, according to police records. They were convinced that   
   there were 750,000 fraudulent ballots in the man's vehicle and   
   home.   
      
   Aguirre said the victim was using Hispanic children to sign the   
   ballots because children's fingerprints wouldn't appear on any   
   database, according to the affidavit. He also claimed Facebook's   
   founder gave $9.37 billion for "ballot harvesting."   
      
   Three days before the attack, Aguirre contacted law enforcement   
   with his allegations of the alleged fraud. He called Lt. Wayne   
   Rubio in the Texas Office of the Attorney General for a traffic   
   stop to help in his investigation — a request Rubio denied.   
   Concerned with Aguirre's claims that he would "handle" the   
   situation himself, Rubio contacted police.   
      
   Aguirre was also rebuffed when he contacted the Texas Rangers   
   and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Prosecutors say   
   Aguirre decided to take matters into his own hands.   
      
   Aguirre and at least two other companions set up a "command   
   post" at a Marriott hotel in Pearland, where they planned their   
   attack, Aguirre told police. He has refused to identify his co-   
      
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